From the Green Coast and Paris Underground

It's expensive to drink, eat, and sleep in Paris if you choose to pay. We'd been in town only four hours before we committed our first crime. Paris can be done on the cheap if you got quick hands and fast legs. The trick is when you run away, and someone's yelling, just call back "Merci!" Wear a few layers so as you cut up, down and thru the streets, avoiding the waiters and bakers you just stiffed, you can shed one shirt for the other - ball it up and hide it in you hand. Bold colors work best - and hats. Hats to put on after you jump from your beautiful terrace seat. Everyone told me that the french are rude - I didn't experience any of that, I thought that they were a friendly and generous people. I recommend making the trip if you can. Everything and everyone is beautiful - but you can skip the Louvre - it's overrated.